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Get Your Resume Professionally Written!
It doesn't matter if you are starting from nothing or if you have a working resume in progress, Getinterviews.com can help you write a strong, compelling resume which will land you an interview with a great company.
Alesia Benedict, Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) and Job and Career Transition Coach (JCTC) is the Director of GetInterviews.com, a firm that aids senior and C-level executives through their job search.
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Professional Resume Writing Services
Does your resume read like a dusty, out-of-print book? Our expert resume writers can transform your skills and experience from a "tragic comedy" to a bestseller "must read".
Alesia Benedict, Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) and Job and Career Transition Coach (JCTC) is the Director of GetInterviews.com, a firm that aids senior and C-level executives through their job search.
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Ramp It Up Tip
Avoid the Data Dump~
To avoid a data dump in your resume, you must start with a focus. One of the underlying causes of too much information, or scattered approach in the resume is lack of keen focus. Do not try to be everything to everyone. Resumes such as this leave the reader confused and gives the impression the job seeker is also confused. Employers are looking for problem-solvers with experience solving problems that are similar to the ones they currently face.
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Ramp It Down Tip
Write a Letter to Yourself
As you wrap up your paid gig for awhile, write yourself a quick note to be opened on a specific date a few months before you return to work. In the note, jot down at least 3 options of where you'd like to see yourself go, career-wise, upon your return. When the time comes, use this letter to yourself as a springboard towards choosing your next career step.
-Alexandra Jenkins
Your Question, Our Answer
E Tip: How to Efficiently Keep In Touch With Contacts
One of the greatest professional assets is who you know and who knows you. According to a study of over 600 MBA grads, with 56 % earning over $100,000, “Fifty-eight percent of respondents believe a person skilled at networking could see a ‘significant, substantial or dramatic’ impact on income — even up to a 100-percent increase.”
That means “soft work” like networking can have a pretty substantial ROI.
OnRamping and OffRamping Strategies
7 Strategies for Finding Professional Part-time Work
1. Apply for jobs that are listed as part-time.
2. Find a full-time job and negotiate it to part-time.
Take a full-time job and hope that once you're in it you can negotiate down to part-time.
Apply for full-time hoping to negotiate hours the way you would salary when offered the job (RISKY!!!)
3. Apply for a job as part of a job sharing team.
4. Work as a contractor.
Negotiate projects on your own.
Work through a staffing service.
5. Create your own position.
Volunteer
Getting Back in the Game
A new study offers some important suggestions to ease the reentry of older women into the executive workforce Monica McGrath is an adjunct assistant professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Wharton Executive Education and UBS Launch "Career Comeback," A New Program for Women Reentering the Workforce
Wharton Executive Education and UBS Launch "Career Comeback," A New Program for Women Reentering the Workforce Women Returning to Work after a Career Hiatus Face Obstacles; New Program Supports Women in Career Transition Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY, January 25, 2007 —
The Smart Woman's Guide to Successful Offramping
You are leaving your job to pursue a new adventure! Before you get carried away by the wonderful opportunities and challenges ahead, be sure to factor in a few simple steps that will help you successfully on-ramp when the time is right. All too often women walk away from the workplace without putting the pieces in place that will create new employment opportunities for them later in their lives. We don't want that to happen to you!
From mummy slow lane to the fast track
From The Sunday Times
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May 20, 2007
From mummy slow lane to the fast track
Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett is fighting for a working life that women can live with
Turning Stay-at-Home Skills into Career-Track Assets
March 8, 2007; Page D1
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by Sue Shellenberger
When Elizabeth Montanez decided to return to work after 12 years at home with her four children, she faced a problem: Her resume ended at 1994.
Trying to Opt Back In
Trying to Opt Back In
After decades of debating whether mothers should go back to work, now women are asking—can they?
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By Eve Conant
Newsweek
Can the price be too high to stay at the top?
Sylvia Ann Hewlett has more cause than most women to fight for family-friendly working hours.
The Cambridge academic, who now lives and works in the US, was struggling through long hours at work, combining her demanding job with being a mother, when she found she was expecting twins.
Dartmouth's Tuck Business School: Back in Business Program
Back in Business: Invest in Your Return
Tuck Executive Education's innovative new program is designed to
reintegrate executives into the fast paced business world, focusing on
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majority of our participants are women with MBAs who left the workforce
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careers.
Back in Business is an intensive 11-day, 55-session program over three
Using Transferable Skills to Make a Career Change
Every day, we talk to jobseekers who are seeking to transition into careers at socially entrepreneurial organizations. Some come from the corporate world, some are recent graduates, and others are teachers. Whatever the specifics, there is one key factor to these jobseekers' capacity to catch the eye of a nonprofit employer: the ability to identify, demonstrate, and market their transferable skills.